Rep. Ilhan Omar got a prominent Democratic primary challengerSunday when former Minneapolis City Council member Don Samuels announced he’ll try once again to unseat her after coming close in 2022.
“Our congresswoman has a predilection to divisiveness and conflict,” Samuels said in an interview with The Associated Press ahead of his official announcement Sunday morning on WCCO Radio.
The Jamaican-born Samuels still maintains that his narrow primary loss in 2022 showed Omar was beatable, and that he could have won if they had competed later in the general election, where Omar won 74% of the vote over a little-known Republican.